My therapist asked me at the end of the six months, “As you move forward what kind of woman would you like to meet?” After some reflection I said, “I would like to meet a woman who has been out for a long time and who has no children ." Why did I want a life...
In my last post I talked about the inertia that comes over us when we get stuck in the in-between, or for some of us, Gethsemane. It is so very hard to create a new life when we are clinging to an old one. My most difficult time of transition was when I...
I have a secret to share with y'all. I am a transplanted southerner, so I have to try and speak the language. As of today I know one word. A cool side effect of coming out later in life, is that it brought into my consciousness that somewhere in the last...
IN ACKNOWLEDGING MY SEXUALITY I KNEW THAT EVERYTHING WAS GOING TO CHANGE AND THAT BROUGHT ME TO MY KNEES IN FEAR. EVERYTHING I HAD WORKED SO HARD TO ACHIEVE WAS NOW SO VERY FRAGILE AND VULNERABLE. Several weeks later, on a tearful Saturday morning after I...
PART II To speak of the presence of God that night shows how far I have come. I was one of those allies to the LGBTQ community who was very accepting of anyone being gay, it just wasn’t ok for me. I have since realized that I had internalized homophobia,...
Ordained to Come Out Part 1 My name is Anne-Marie. Like all of us, I have many roles or labels in this life. I am a mother, daughter, sister, aunt, cousin, ex-wife, partner, in-law, minister, chaplain and yogi. I am also a lesbian. If someone told me three...